“I recognized him immediately. “While he was walking with his dog, Christophe, 54, crossed paths with a man suspected of having raped a 13-year-old girl on December 20 in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique). The young girl was walking on the customs road when she was sexually assaulted, around noon, by a man who threatened her with a knife. Rescued by two people, the victim then described the face of her rapist to the police who drew her sketch and hung it in the police station. By reflex, this experienced brigadier, who has worked at night for 21 years, took a photo of him. In case…
On January 5, while he was walking with his dog on a small path, he saw a man with strange behavior, who seemed to be following a young woman. The bag, the glasses, the scar on the ear, the beard… “I immediately tilted”, says Christophe to 20 minutes. No doubt: it is indeed the man wanted for the rape of the teenager. He doesn’t want to let it go. He alerts the police station then approaches the suspect. “I went to the nerve! “Seeing him coming towards him, the individual seems” embarrassed “. Christophe explains to him that he is a policeman and that his colleagues are coming to check him. The man complies and follows him to the road, a little higher, where the police have parked and come to arrest him.
“It’s for this kind of thing that I am a policeman”
He gives them a kitchen knife that was in the pocket of his sweatshirt. He claims to use it for a picnic, which the police doubt. The 30-year-old man, unknown to the police, was then arrested for carrying an illegal weapon. Placed in police custody, the suspect was questioned about the rape of the teenager and ended up admitting the facts. He was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention at the Nantes remand center. A judicial inquiry has been opened. Christophe, he can not help but think of the young victim and his relatives. “It’s for this kind of thing that I joined the police. »